Essays on Aeon

Ageing out of drugs

In the article "Ageing out of drugs", McKenna wants to tell that we have to work on the natural phenomenon of ageing out to get rid of drug use. She chooses this idea as she is working on a graphic non-fiction book related to metamphetamine users, and has found that this phenomenon of ageing-out could be among the best strategies to deal with the problem. This information about McKenna has been shown in the author biography. In the article, the author has arranged the ideas or information in a logical flow. She has initially described the drug-use-related issues thoroughly, ...

Ageing out of drugs

Story of a person named as Clyde In the article, McKenna tells the story of a person who was an active substance user, i.e. methamphetamine user (McKenna, aeon.co).

Research on active meth use and its outcomes

Treatment for the drug use According to the article, nearly 22 million Americans require therapy for a drug or alcohol problem. However, only 11.6 percent of those got the required treatment in the year 2014. Nearly, two-thirds of the addicted users successfully reduce their consumption or quit using the drug without formal help. The author notes that it is important to work on new recovery processes (McKenna, aeon.co).

What is “ageing out”?

Ageing out is ...

Film Studies Portfolio

Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” Film Review

An extremely ambitious project from a very young director, Xavier Dolan, the romantic drama “Laurence Anyways” follows the love story between Fred (Suzanne Clement) and Laurence (Melvin Poupad). Ironically, although they both have masculine names, Fred and Laurence are women. A transgender who had lived as a man, Laurence comes out with the revelation that he has always felt as a woman inside, and continuing his fake male life would kill him. The filmmaker situates this unique love story in the 1990s, a time when transsexuality was still considered an illness, and ...

Our memories can become distorted by other people’s memories of the same event or by new information, especially when that new information is so similar to information already in storage. This sentence is an example of plagiarised one. It was taken from the article available online and was not documented. We do not see any quotation marks, any citation. Without specific software we would not be able to find out that this sentence was plagiarized. From the first site we can decide that it is original as it has a specific point of view of the author who ...